Improvement in horse-brushes



UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

i FRANK FOSS, OF LYNN,'MASSAOHU'SETT S.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,374, dated June 25,1878 application filed April 27, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Foss, of Lynn, in the county of Essex andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or ImprovedHorse-Brush, which invention is fully set forth in the followingspecification, referencebeing had to the accompanying draw- 1n g. i

Figure 1 represents a plan of the face of my said brush; Fig. 2, alongitudinal section of the same; Fig. 3, a cross-section.

Heretofore in the class of rubber brushes and curry-combs the teeth havebeen made conical, and in consequence of which the teeth were soflexible as to be of little account, except when supported or stiffenedwith metal points or wires, which were more or less irritating to theanimal upon which they were used.

My invention is intended to obviate the defects incident to theconstruction of brushes or combs having conical points without the aidof metal points, and at the same time produce a brush in which the teethare self-sustaining; and to this end the invention consists in ahorsebruslnas a new article of manufacture, having a molded elastic backintegral with rows of short broad-based pyramidal projections formedupon its face, and also formed upon its back, as a constituent partthereof, two lugs or ears, to which is attached a handloop, all ashereinafter more fully described.

In'the drawing, A represents a flexible and elastic back of ahorse-brush, molded from iubber or analogous material, and having formedupon its face rows of pyramidic projections b 11, whose bases aresufficiently broad in proportion to the height to give proper supportand elasticity to the projections, and so disposed and arranged upon theback A as to present penetrating corners as well as points inall'directions; and also formed upon said back A, and as a constituentpart thereof, two lugs or ears, 0 c, to which is attached a handloop,11, of leather, secured thereto by rivets e c, as shown, for the purposeof supporting the brush upon the back of the and when in use. Thisbrush, being upon s face entirely nonmetallic, is soft and agreeable tothe animal, and, by reason of the peculiar formation and arran gement ofits brushing-surface, is unusually .efi'ective in cleaning the skin andhair of a horse, much more so than metallic or rubber brushes withrubber points supported or stift ened by metallic points, and which alsoirritate the horse or animal while being used thereon. It is also morereadily freed from dust and hair by a simple rap, and may be washedperfectly clean in a moment without injury to any part of it.

, I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, thehereindescribed brush, consisting of a molded elastic back, A, integralwith rows of short broadbased pyramidal projections b 1) upon its face,and upon its back, as a constituentpart thereof, two lugs or ears, 0 c,to which is attached a hand-loop, substantially as specified.

FRANK FOSS.

Witnesses:

EUGENE HUMPHREY, T. W. PORTER.

